AHSS*2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Uniform Crime Reports, Real Change, Homicide
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The nature and extent of crime: what are the patterns and trends , who commits crime, what is the nature of criminality. Impaired driving is how and what you commit to resources. Media sensitive: put pressure on the police, make stats higher than they should be. Crime severity index: volume and seriousness of different crimes, separate violent crime from property crime. Descriptive terms: percentage change in amount of crime between years, crime rate on topic - may be dropping but reality may be dropping. Accuracy media practices: media plays prominent role in brining things to the attention to the police. Now they changed the policies when there is safety reasons: protecting the public is more important. Inaccurate because he never came forward - reformed and he deserves parole. Victim surveys: victims tend to tell u they are a victim, tell you things mainly through the telephone.
